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Show Shabby Tires Are Not Favored for Any Car Shabby tires on a good-looking carl Tet stand on any street corner today and count the number of patched-up, dilapidated tires which are being nsed to the last mile. The cost of keeping these tires running for a few thousand thou-sand miles would nearly pay for new ones. Mileage tuch at this comet high. Tire conservation doet not mean picking up a decrepit tire and patting it back Into tervice at a big repair cost Just to save a little rubber left In the tread. It means taking care of the tire from the first so that it will be able to deliver all the mileage built into It by the maker. When tires are so far wern that they are toon to Wow, it It poor economy to repair them. Such a course meant sacrifice of the Inner tube at welt. Cheap, makeshift patches, boots and temporary repalra of all klndt are now being called Into use as never before, but patching up an old casing In which separation af fabric plies has already begun, cannot give the freedom from tire trouble on which the pleasure In motoring so largely depends. |
